‘Anabta, Ar-Ras, Azzun, Jubara (Kafriat), Qalqiliya, Wed 3.9.08, Morning
Passage Qalqiliya (Eliahu) 6:50
As usual, tens of workers, who are working in the settlement of Alfei Menashe, are waiting by the fence for their checking. Today the checking is very quick (later we discover the reason). Out of 248 workers who are gistered in the line (one of them is in charge) 170 went through. As the checking started at about 05:00, it meant that the rate was nearly 100 per hour, the last one left before 08:00.
From our experience we know that this is.not the usual speed, usually it finishes between 8:30-9:00.At this time the workers give up because it means they have lost a days work – the contractors don't wait for them that long, and they return home. Therefore they wait from 3:00 AM to be ahead in the line.
The people in the line complained bitterly about this problem. They told us that yesterday they left the passage demonstratively. This apparently is the reason that today we met a major and a captain from "Magav" who said they were there from 05:00, and counted how many people got through every hour. There was also a military policeman , who according to them, is always there (not always – according to our experience). Furthermore they said that there is no need to have more than one person checking – fact being that today it went fast. Question – what will happen tomorrow or after tomorrow, when they are not around.
Qalqiliya Checkpoint
No lines, fast passage, we did not wait.
Azzun- Both entrances open.
Anata Checkpoint 9:30-9:45 (On the way back from Beit Iba)
When we arrived there were no cars at the Checkpoint. We were greeted by the checkpoint commander , but for some reason they started checking the vehicles very throroughly, opening the baggage compartment, the engine, and every bag which was in the car. The passengers were asked to leave the car, and stand beside it. After this repeated itself for the third time, we thought that this "extra motivation" was due to our presence and we left.
Jubara (Teenim)-10:00
About 10 vehicles of the Blue Police – The gate to the v illage is open and a tractor is cleaning the area of the
passage to the gate. We requested permission to enter, and went in.
Checkpoint Ar Ras (Chava 8)
Also here the checkpoint is empty and the soldiers bored. A private car with a man and a women , citizens of
Jubara
returning from shopping, has been stopped.Both people have to leave the car..The baggage compartment is opened and every bag checked – meat, bamia (vegetable) clothes, shoe boxes, each shoe is taken out, all according to the instructions of the soldier. Then he examines the inside of the car. After all that they are permitted to continue on their way. About 200 meters there is another checkpoint – Gate number 753. We looked if also there they will go through another such a strict checking – but luckily there only their papers were checked.And they were not asked to leave the car.
A taxi arrives from Tulkarm. They are asked for all their papers – but what do they have to check? A soldier
is apparently " hyperactive" and bored. When we arrived he said something to himself. Another car arrived and he checks it very thoroughly – instructs to open the engine hood, the baggage compartment. I thought to mysel .
For what reason, can a soldier at the checkpoint, harass every Palestinian that passes through . Is he bored, is he nervous? Can he do whatever he feels like? The commander of the checkpoint, just looked on without saying a thing.
'Anabta CP
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'Anabta CP
The checkpoint is located south of the village of 'Anabta, at the intersection of Road 60 (leading to Nablus at the entrance to Area A), with Road (57, 557, 5576) facing west towards the Einav settlement and the checkpoint at the exit from the West Bank - Figs checkpoint. Until 2010 we used to watch the intersection and report the long columns created due to a slow inspection of the vehicles in both directions.
Oct-28-2011Anabta checkpoint 24.10.11
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'Azzun
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Azoun (updated February 2019)
A Palestinian town situated in Area B (under civil Palestinian control and Israeli security control),
on road 5 between Nablus and Qalqiliya, east of Nabi Elias village. The inhabitants are allowed to construct and improve infrastructures. The Separation Fence has confiscated lands belonging to the town's people. In 2018 olive tree groves owned by one of its inhabitants were confiscated for the sake of paving a road to bypass Nabi Elias. Azoun population numbers 13,000, its economic state dire. Its infrastructures are poor, neglect and poverty rampant. In the meantime, the town council has completed paving an internal road for the inhabitants' welfare.
Because of its proximity to the Jewish settler-colony of Karnei Shomron and its outposts, the town suffers the intense presence of the Israeli army, especially at nighttime: soldiers enter homes, arrest suspects, trash the house and sometimes ruin it, as they do in numerous places in the West Bank. At times a checkpoint closes the entrance to the town, so no one can come in or get out.
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A-Ras (The Children Checkpoint)
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A-Ras (The Children Checkpoint)
On Tulkarm-Qalqiliya road (574), east of Hirbet Jubara. tia checkpoint is dedicated to residents traveling to and from Tulkarm, so they should not cross apartheid road 557 (only permissible for settlers).
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Jubara (Kafriat)
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The Jabra checkpoint was on Road 557, south of Tulkarm, on the side of the Figs Pass, which is located within the Palestinian Authority (a few kilometers east of the Green Line), and serves as an entry barrier from the territories to Israel. The checkpoint to the village of Jubara, which until 2013 was in the seam area, blocked and surrounded by a fence, was intended for the passage of the family members of the house next to the checkpoint, and also for the MachsomWatch volunteers (with special permission only), on their way to checkpoint 753. on the other side of the village. The soldiers supervising the "fig crossing" also supervised the crossing at this checkpoint, in our shifts we often waited a long time until the key was found and the gate opened. The checkpoint was abolished and became part of the separation fence that was moved west following the High Court.
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Qalqiliya checkpoint
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Qalqilya is surrounded on all sides by the separation barrier. The only exit from the city is in the east of the city on the road that leaves the city in an easterly direction. This is where the checkpoint was located. When the checkpoint was active until 2009 our shifts watched long queues of cars being inspected at the only exit from the city to the West Bank. The checkpoint was canceled, but there is a military presence at the entrance to the city.
Ronit Dahan-RamatiJun-18-2026Nabi Elyas. The western entrance is closed
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